author: Oliver Neukum <neukum@fachschaft.cup.uni-muenchen.de> 2006-03-25 03:08:13 -0800
committer: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> 2006-03-25 08:23:00 -0800
commit: 11b0b5abb2097a63c1081d9b7e825b987b227972
parent: 656bde5728b824ca23fcab8bc5800b309ea48d64
Commit Summary:
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index 5c36345c9bf7..8c6eb04d31e2 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -146,12 +146,10 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
int ret = 0;
int i;
- cd = kmalloc(sizeof(struct char_device_struct), GFP_KERNEL);
+ cd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct char_device_struct), GFP_KERNEL);
if (cd == NULL)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- memset(cd, 0, sizeof(struct char_device_struct));
-
mutex_lock(&chrdevs_lock);
/* temporary */
@@ -466,9 +464,8 @@ static struct kobj_type ktype_cdev_dynamic = {
struct cdev *cdev_alloc(void)
{
- struct cdev *p = kmalloc(sizeof(struct cdev), GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct cdev *p = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cdev), GFP_KERNEL);
if (p) {
- memset(p, 0, sizeof(struct cdev));
p->kobj.ktype = &ktype_cdev_dynamic;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->list);
kobject_init(&p->kobj);